Wednesday, January 7, 2015

You Can Now Play Oregon Trail Online for Free


The Internet Archive, which is best known for running the world wide web’s time capsule, The Wayback Machine, has put the game that traumatized countless children of the ’80s and ’90s online. That means future generations can feel the oppressive horror of attempting to fight their way across the Oregon Trail on a steady diet of squirrel meat with only an axe, some rope and frequent bouts of dysentery, pausing in their manifest destiny only long enough to etch grandma’s epitaph on a makeshift tombstone on the side of trail.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Artists Put Rooms on City Streets and Invite You to Play House


Bettman and Eker dismantled their first set—the living room where two children sit on a couch with a typewriter and a goldfish bowl—shortly after the shoot, but then decided to leave them up with a sign that invited pedestrians to snap and post a photo with #setinthestreet.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Underground Railroad Images Retrace the Steps of Fleeing Slaves


Few photos of this Underground Railroad exist, which is why Jeanine Michna-Bales has spent months following some of the known routes north, photographing the homes, forests and caves where those escaping slavery sought shelter.

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